How We Created Opportunities Out Of Year 2020 Challenges — NNPC         The year 2020 is a year like no other. A year that threw up a health challenge which brought the whole world to its knees. The coronavirus pandemic precipitated the lockdown of social and economic...

$2.6bn AKK Pipeline 10% Completed - Contractor       About 100 per cent local content is currently deployed for the construction of the $2.6bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, the contractor handling the project, Oilserv Limited, has said. The Managing Director, Oilserv, Emeka Okwuosa, also told journalists during a...

New Gas Project To Add N2.8trn To Nigeria’s Economy         About N2.8 trillion-revenue is expected from a new 200 million cubic feet gas project being promoted by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This revenue is expected to...

Oil Marketers Seek FG's Approval To Fix Refineries       Oil marketers have expressed willingness and capacity to fix Nigeria’s dysfunctional refineries and get the facilities running in the shortest possible time. Operators of retail outlets in the downstream sector of the oil industry called on the Federal...

Insecurity in North West Nigeria: Armed Banditry or Jihadist Expansionism?  By Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim       North West Nigeria has for the past four to five decades suffered from waves of crisis and violence. The trajectory of such violence started with ethno-religious clashes and moved through electoral violence,...

Katsina, New Haven of Terror-Banditry in Nigeria? By Yushau A. Shuaib Was it not strange that the abduction of Kankara boys occurred on the day President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Daura, his hometown, in Katsina State, on a private visit? It is even more curious that the...